12:30 Report — Holiday travel hampered
12:30 REPORT
Merry Christmas Eve!! 🎄I hope you’re all having a fun, relaxing day. Before you get back to your festivities, here’s a quick primer of what’s happening in the world:
- American Airlines briefly grounded flights this morning for technical issues.
- Where does Matt Gaetz go from here?
- Biden appears to be taking a back seat in his final weeks.
- Trump threatens to retake control of the Panama Canal: What’s his play?
- Tiger Woods’s son got a hole-in-one.
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✈️ News This Morning
John Candy and The Kenosha Kickers could fix this:
(I had to look up the name of John Candy’s polka band from “Home Alone” — the one that drove Kate McCallister back home in the snowstorm. That feels like a good trivia question.)
American Airlines briefly grounded all flights this morning — Christmas Eve, one of the busiest travel days of the year — due to an unspecified technical issue.
If you’ve been on social media this morning, it’s been intense: Social media users have been rattling off complaints over hampered Christmas Eve travel.
Keep in mind: The ground stop was lifted at around 8 a.m.
Check out this graphic of flight traffic at 7:45 a.m.........
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